I've watched hundreds of sunsets in orbit. Like you can see in the picture in message 11, only the atmosphere closest to the planet appears red and when the sun is seen through that atmosphere it appears red.

And here's a picture I took myself

IMG_0869.png (188.08 KiB) Viewed 1827 times

Thanks for posting your actual sunset picture from orbit, how cool is that? This is an interesting example to simulate and here is the result, also showing the red atmosphere only in the very lower layer.

Note the sun in the simulation is hiding somewhere in the atmosphere without camera flare being modeled.

Source of the post I've watched hundreds of sunsets in orbit. Like you can see in the picture in message 11, only the atmosphere closest to the planet appears red and when the sun is seen through that atmosphere it appears red.This video is what it looks like in real time.

"I've watched hundreds of sunsets in orbit"Are you on the ISS or something?

"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams

I've watched hundreds of sunsets in orbit. Like you can see in the picture in message 11, only the atmosphere closest to the planet appears red and when the sun is seen through that atmosphere it appears red.This video is what it looks like in real time.

And here's a picture I took myselfIMG_0869.PNGHow did you take this? like how does it look so good, i just got Space engine, but in particular, planets look really low quality, and how do you have the ISS lol

KyranB, he took the picture from an online/live camera.As for the planets being low quality, I'm guessing here you're referring to Solar System objects, see the FAQ.If I'm not mistaken there was an ISS model around here, I'm pretty sure we'll have it again in a SE version orbiting around Earth. SoonTM.

Actually with a moderate sized telescope you can take pictures of the ISS with a bit of detail on it. With a 14 inch SCT you can actually see windows on the ISS while with an 8 inch SCT you can make out areas of different brightness.

I thought that was pretty surprising! But it seems to be true. With 14 inches aperture your resolution should be a little better than a meter at 400km. At that point your more limited by the atmospheric turbulence, since you need sub arc-second seeing.

I thought that was pretty surprising! But it seems to be true. With 14 inches aperture your resolution should be a little better than a meter at 400km. At that point your more limited by the atmospheric turbulence, since you need sub arc-second seeing.

I was shocked too! But I saw the images posted- they are a bit on the blurry side but you can clearly make out the windows. If I can find them I shall post them again. The minimum you need to detect any variations on the ISS is an 8 inch scope.